Landscape Client

Error when upgrading landscape-client to 16.01~bzr829-0ubuntu0~ubuntu14.04.1

Bug #1546743 reported by Dean Henrichsmeyer on 2016-02-17

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Landscape Client	Fix Released	Critical	Benji York	Landscape Client 16.03
landscape-client (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Trusty	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Updating landscape-client (from lds-trunk PPA) on a trusty container I get the following:

root@lsdev:~# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up landscape-client (16.01~bzr829-0ubuntu0~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/landscape-client.postinst: 127: /var/lib/dpkg/info/landscape-client.postinst: cannot create /var/lib/landscape/client/user-update-flag: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing package landscape-client (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
landscape-client
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Related branches

lp:~benji/landscape-client/bug-1546743-postinst-creates-file-in-non-existent-directory

Merged into lp:~landscape/landscape-client/trunk at revision 830

Adam Collard (community): Approve on 2016-02-18

Bogdana Vereha (community): Approve on 2016-02-18

Revision history for this message

Dean Henrichsmeyer (dean) wrote on 2016-02-17:

My apt archives tell me I was upgrading from landscape-client_16.01~bzr827-0ubuntu0~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb

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Dean Henrichsmeyer (dean) wrote on 2016-02-17:

My /etc/landscape/client.conf contains...

[client]
log_level = info
url = https://landscape.canonical.com/message-system
ping_url = http://landscape.canonical.com/ping
data_path = /var/lib/landscape/client

Benji York (benji) on 2016-02-17

Changed in landscape-client:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Critical
assignee:	nobody → Benji York (benji)

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David Britton (dpb) wrote on 2016-02-17:

Hypothesis:

13:58 dpb │ ah, I think I might have it
13:58 dpb │ blackboxsw, benji, new system, never before registered, install old version of client, don't register, then
│ upgrade
13:58 dpb │ I bet you hit it
13:59 blackboxsw │ yeah I was tracing bootstrap_tree to setup() and realized it's a system that has never been run
13:59 benji │ dpb: does registration change the directory privs?
13:59 dpb │ benji: I think registration creates the dir
13:59 benji │ pfft
13:59 blackboxsw │ correct, registration or starting the services in general create the dir if it doesn't exist
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14:00 benji │ that sounds like a good starting point for tomorrow; I'm going to mark that bug as critical and assign it to me
│ and start with it first thing